Daily Daniel etc in 2023

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let ev’ry heart prepare him room And heaven and nature sing. Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let all their songs employ. While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy. No more let sins and sorrows grow Nor thorns infest the ground. He comes to make his blessings known Far as the curse is found. He rules the world with truth and grace And makes the nations prove The glories of his righteousness And wonders of his love. Amen.   Psalm 89:38–52 But you have spurned and rejected him; you have become enraged with your anointed. 39 You have repudiated the covenant with your servant; you have completely dishonored his crown. 40 You have broken down all his walls; you have reduced his fortified cities to ruins. 41 All who pass by plunder him; he has become an object of ridicule to his neighbors. 42 You ...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let ev’ry heart prepare him room And heaven and nature sing. Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let all their songs employ. While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy. No more let sins and sorrows grow Nor thorns infest the ground. He comes to make his blessings known Far as the curse is found. He rules the world with truth and grace And makes the nations prove The glories of his righteousness And wonders of his love. Amen.   Psalm 89:1–37 A  maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.  I will sing about the L ORD 's faithful love forever; I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations with my mouth. 2 For I will declare, "Faithful love is built up forever; you establish your faithfulness in the heavens." 3 The L ORD said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn an oat...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let ev’ry heart prepare him room And heaven and nature sing. Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let all their songs employ. While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy. No more let sins and sorrows grow Nor thorns infest the ground. He comes to make his blessings known Far as the curse is found. He rules the world with truth and grace And makes the nations prove The glories of his righteousness And wonders of his love. Amen.   Nehemiah 13:23–31 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.  24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples but could not speak Hebrew. 25 I rebuked them, cursed them, beat some of their men, and pulled out their hair. I forced them to take an oath before God and said, "You m...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let ev’ry heart prepare him room And heaven and nature sing. Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let all their songs employ. While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy. No more let sins and sorrows grow Nor thorns infest the ground. He comes to make his blessings known Far as the curse is found. He rules the world with truth and grace And makes the nations prove The glories of his righteousness And wonders of his love. Amen.   Nehemiah 13:15–22 At that time I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath. They were also bringing in stores of grain and loading them on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day. 16 The Tyrians living there were importing fish and all...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let ev’ry heart prepare him room And heaven and nature sing. Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let all their songs employ. While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy. No more let sins and sorrows grow Nor thorns infest the ground. He comes to make his blessings known Far as the curse is found. He rules the world with truth and grace And makes the nations prove The glories of his righteousness And wonders of his love. Amen.   Nehemiah 13:6–14 While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to King Artaxerxes of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. It was only later that I asked the king for a leave of absence  7 so I could return to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Come, Desire of nations, come, Fix in us Thy humble home; Rise, the woman’s conqu’ring Seed, Bruise in us the serpent’s head. Now display Thy saving power, Ruined nature now restore; Now in mystic union join Thine to ours, and ours to Thine. Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!” Adam’s likeness, Lord, efface, Stamp Thine image in its place: Second Adam from above, Reinstate us in Thy love. Let us Thee, though lost, regain, Thee, the Life, the inner man: O, to all Thyself impart, Formed in each believing heart. Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!”   Amen. Nehemiah 13:1 –5 At that time the book of Moses was read publicly to the people. The command was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God, 2 because they did not meet the Israelites with food and water. Instead, they hired Balaam against them to curse ...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Come, Desire of nations, come, Fix in us Thy humble home; Rise, the woman’s conqu’ring Seed, Bruise in us the serpent’s head. Now display Thy saving power, Ruined nature now restore; Now in mystic union join Thine to ours, and ours to Thine. Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!” Adam’s likeness, Lord, efface, Stamp Thine image in its place: Second Adam from above, Reinstate us in Thy love. Let us Thee, though lost, regain, Thee, the Life, the inner man: O, to all Thyself impart, Formed in each believing heart. Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!”   Amen. Nehemiah 12:40 –47 T he two thanksgiving processions stood in the house of God. So did I and half of the officials accompanying me, 41 as well as the priests: Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;   42  and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, U...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Come, Desire of nations, come, Fix in us Thy humble home; Rise, the woman’s conqu’ring Seed, Bruise in us the serpent’s head. Now display Thy saving power, Ruined nature now restore; Now in mystic union join Thine to ours, and ours to Thine. Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!” Adam’s likeness, Lord, efface, Stamp Thine image in its place: Second Adam from above, Reinstate us in Thy love. Let us Thee, though lost, regain, Thee, the Life, the inner man: O, to all Thyself impart, Formed in each believing heart. Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!”   Amen. Nehemiah 12:31 –39 Then I brought the leaders of Judah up on top of the wall, and I appointed two large processions that gave thanks. One went to the right on the wall, toward the Dung Gate. 32  Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed,  33  along with Azariah, Ezra, Meshull...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: Come, Desire of nations, come, Fix in us Thy humble home; Rise, the woman’s conqu’ring Seed, Bruise in us the serpent’s head. Now display Thy saving power, Ruined nature now restore; Now in mystic union join Thine to ours, and ours to Thine. Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!” Adam’s likeness, Lord, efface, Stamp Thine image in its place: Second Adam from above, Reinstate us in Thy love. Let us Thee, though lost, regain, Thee, the Life, the inner man: O, to all Thyself impart, Formed in each believing heart. Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!”   Amen. Nehemiah 12:27 –30 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sent for the Levites wherever they lived and brought them to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres. 28 The singers gathered from the region around Jer...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: “Comfort, comfort all my people; Speak of peace,” so says our God. “Comfort those who sit in darkness, Mourning ’neath their sorrow’s load; Speak to all Jerusalem Of the peace that waits for them; Tell them that their sins I cover, That their warfare now is over.” All their sins our God will pardon, Blotting out each dark misdeed; All that well deserve his anger He will no more see nor heed. They have suffered many a day, Now their griefs have passed away, God will change their aching sadness Into ever-springing gladness. John the Baptist’s voice is crying In the desert far and near, Bidding all men to repentance, Since the kingdom now is here. O that warning cry obey! Now prepare for God a way! Let the valleys rise to meet him, And the hills bow down to greet him. Straighten, God, my crooked highway; Make my rougher places plain: Let my heart be true and humble, Ready for your holy reign, Fo...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: “Comfort, comfort all my people; Speak of peace,” so says our God. “Comfort those who sit in darkness, Mourning ’neath their sorrow’s load; Speak to all Jerusalem Of the peace that waits for them; Tell them that their sins I cover, That their warfare now is over.” All their sins our God will pardon, Blotting out each dark misdeed; All that well deserve his anger He will no more see nor heed. They have suffered many a day, Now their griefs have passed away, God will change their aching sadness Into ever-springing gladness. John the Baptist’s voice is crying In the desert far and near, Bidding all men to repentance, Since the kingdom now is here. O that warning cry obey! Now prepare for God a way! Let the valleys rise to meet him, And the hills bow down to greet him. Straighten, God, my crooked highway; Make my rougher places plain: Let my heart be true and humble, Ready for your holy reign, Fo...

5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023 Our opening prayer for this week: “Comfort, comfort all my people; Speak of peace,” so says our God. “Comfort those who sit in darkness, Mourning ’neath their sorrow’s load; Speak to all Jerusalem Of the peace that waits for them; Tell them that their sins I cover, That their warfare now is over.” All their sins our God will pardon, Blotting out each dark misdeed; All that well deserve his anger He will no more see nor heed. They have suffered many a day, Now their griefs have passed away, God will change their aching sadness Into ever-springing gladness. John the Baptist’s voice is crying In the desert far and near, Bidding all men to repentance, Since the kingdom now is here. O that warning cry obey! Now prepare for God a way! Let the valleys rise to meet him, And the hills bow down to greet him. Straighten, God, my crooked highway; Make my rougher places plain: Let my heart be true and humble, Ready for your holy reign, Fo...